Lydia McGrew: The Gospels are more reliable than you think

Most Christians were taught to trust the Gospels without ever being shown why they should. The historical evidence is stronger than you think.

New Testament scholar Lydia McGrew lays out what she calls the "reportage model," the case that the Gospel authors were close to the facts, always trying to get them right, and highly successful. She walks through the two big categories of evidence, from name statistics that later fiction writers could not fake to undesigned coincidences, the subtle puzzle-like fits between Gospels that are hard to explain any other way.

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